Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Arbus

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Chuck Close

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Helmut Newton

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

Helmut Newton

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Helmut Newton

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Helmut Newton

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Hedi Slimane

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Hedi Slimane

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.

Don Tapscott

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Don Young

I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

Donal Logue

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

Cristin Milioti

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

Larry Taylor

You see everything, from downtown to uptown, all kinds of folks.

Ryan MacDonald

Downtown is a safe place now, but with it growing like it is, we need to ensure that downtown's going to be a safe place to be,

Robert Wilson

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

Sandra Sanchez

My parents always took us places in New Mexico. We would go and have picnics in downtown San Pedro.

Johnny Rivers

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.